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A Commitment to/with/for The Damned
The Time Has Come for White Women to Move Beyond Lip Service: Toward an Anti-Racist Professional Ethics for White Women’s Studies Directors
The (Un)Fair Fight for a Just Democracy
A Collective Student Response to the “Chicago Statement”
Lessons from the Damned, 2018; or Why We Cannot wait for Tenure to Insist upon our Dignity, Respect, Power, and Value
Book Release: Jezebel Unhinged: Loosing the Black Female Body in Religion and Culture
#eulogizingaretha: For the Colored Girl Who Gave Us a Rainbow When the Black Church Wasn’t Enuff (Benediction)
#eulogizingaretha: A Reflection Upon a Musical Selection: “Mary, Don’t You Weep”
#eulogizingaretha: What We Need to Say About Mother Franklin
#eulogizingaretha: The Power of Aretha Louise Franklin
#eulogizingaretha: A Rose Is Still A Rose
#eulogizingaretha: The Queen Saved My Soul
#eulogizingaretha: A Natural Black Woman: Aretha Franklin’s #BlackGirlMagic
#eulogizingaretha: Her life. Her love for us. Our love for her.
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Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul
TFW celebrates Collective member Tanisha C. Ford on the publication of her new book!! — From the civil rights and Black Power era of the...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: My Message to Anti-Abortionists
By Anonymous Dear Picketer, Pulling into the abortion clinic you were there to greet me after my hour-and-a-half long drive across the state line....
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A Beginner’s Perspective on Being a Woman in Different Spaces of Environmental Activism
By Georgie Johnson Since September 2014, I have worked for Women’s Environmental Network (WEN), a small London-based NGO that works towards environmental justice and gender equality...
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Marco Rubio’s Flat Earth Minstrelsy
Ever since misbegotten Republican retread Alan Keyes burst onto the scene as the anti-Obama in 2008 it seems as if every presidential race demands at...
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Vegan Praxis, Black Lives Matter, and Water Rationing: A Conversation with Dr. A. Breeze Harper
I’d definitely call Dr. A. Breeze Harper one of the top intersectional vegan theorists today. And that’s not just hype—she most famously did this with...
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Climate Change and Feminist Environmentalisms Forum: An Introduction
By Cristina Awadalla I came to an important realization one night. I had long been learning about climate change, the anthropogenic kind that so many...
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Two Poems: Rose Moses
By Rose Moses My Church When I pray I go to the forest I go to a place that no man could have created,...
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3 poems by Christopher Soto (aka Loma)
crush a pearl (its powder) the night rory died, he moved the chair, his blonde locks fell & we will never be the same...
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Did you find all your terrorists America?
By Yehuda Sharim Did you find all your terrorists, America? 1.3 million men, women and children from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, are dead and now: what...
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COLLEGE FEMINISMS: Oncofeminism
By Petra Jans Science has always been my calling, but it was not until I started studying feminism at Colorado College that I began to...
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Killing Me Softly: On the Power of “No”
By Fiona Helmsley When it comes to sex, “no means no” has entered into mainstream thought as a concept; hopefully, in a much more effective...
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Profiting from Rape: Sexual Violence and the Capitalist State
By Kelly Rose Pflug-Back Rape culture. Although a somewhat new term, it unveils a truth which countless women and girls have known on both an intellectual...
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Photography Feature: On Beauty and Age
By Sheri Wright What is aged or overlooked can often be a source of beauty, if approached from a different perspective, one from a desire...
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TFW’s Co-Founder Tamura A. Lomax Invited to The Harvard Kennedy School
The Feminist Wire‘s own Tamura A. Lomax, co-founder, will be participating in the 11th Annual Black Policy Conference at The Harvard Kennedy School this week. She...
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Can the Somali Speak?: Open Letter to Dr. Markus Hoehne and the Somaliland Journal of African Studies
It is with grave concern that we, the undersigned Somali academics, researchers, students, writers, activists, community members and our non-Somali academic and activist allies, write...
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An Open Letter to Trans Communities and our Co-Conspirators
In the wake of this year’s Trans100 event, we write this letter with grave concern for the current state of the trans movement,...
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Two Poems: Monica Wendel
By Monica Wendel Gilgo Beach We were so sick from dope my mom had to fly from New York to take care of...
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TFW’s Aishah Shahidah Simmons Receives Sterling Brown Professorship at Williams College
TFW Associate Editor Aishah Shahidah Simmons was invited to be the Sterling Brown Visiting Professor of Africana Studies at Williams College during the spring semester...
